Sentences with phrase «featherweight champion»

«Aldo and McGregor are two of the biggest stars in the world and it's fitting that next Saturday night the winner not only becomes the undisputed UFC featherweight champion, but also the second global cover athlete of EA SPORTS UFC 2.»

Rendall makes the argument that boxing is based on the disposability of its only commodity (the fighters) and the invincibility of its most unsavory element (the promoters) by exploring the career of Colin McMillan, then the world featherweight champion.

But this particular car has a different sporting story, having been owned from new by British boxer and former World Featherweight champion «Prince» Naseem Hamed.

Stevenson vs. Jack is part of a split - site telecast beginning with featherweight champion Gary Russell, Jr. defending his title against mandatory title challenger Joseph Diaz.

Plus, undefeated super featherweight champion «Sniper» Jose Pedraza (21 - 0, 12 KOs) squares off against Britain's former titleholder Stephen «Swifty» Smith (23 - 1, 13 KOs).

Patiently waiting to avenge his lone UFC loss to current featherweight champion Conor McGregor.

WBC super featherweight champion Miguel Berchelt (33 - 1, 29 KOs) made easy work of replacement opponent Maxwell Awuku (44 -4-1, 30 KOs) in stopping him in the 3rd round on Saturday night at the Oasis Arena in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico.

Holloway (+375) is the current UFC featherweight champion and he enters this fight with a 12 - fight winning streak.

Davey Moore, world featherweight champion, won the decision, if not the foot race, by beating Fili Nava, former Mexican national champion, in a 10 - round bout in San Antonio.

At least not featherweight champion Little Red Lopez, who goes on the warpath every time he hits the deck

As hard as I try, sometimes I get things wrong — and I definitely got it wrong regarding UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor's «unretirement.»

Showtime Boxing: Relive the instant classic between Carl Frampton and Leo Santa Cruz Leo Santa Cruz with with top featherweight champions Gary Russell, Jr. and Lee Selby in attendance.

Not exact matches

But, Ali aside, boxing is in a parlous state: no work for fighters, small purses when they do fight, empty gyms and fewer licensed fighters than ever before; only two American world champions (Ali and featherweight Danny Lopez)-- a long fall from a time when U.S. fighters held most of the world titles.

Called the U.S. Boxing Championship and presenting 60 fighters from featherweight to heavyweight, the series will run from January to June and is designed to create American champions, to build names and continuity.

Showtime Boxing: SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING presents a night of three world title fights headlined by a featherweight world championship showdown between WBA titleholder Jesus Cuellar and former three - division world champion Abner Mares.

Showtime Boxing: Relive former super bantamweight champion Carl Frampton as he moved up in weight to challenge fellow unbeaten Leo Santa Cruz for the featherweight title.

A SHOWTIME Championship Boxing tripleheader featuring six of the world's best fighters in three high - stakes showdowns: champion featherweight Jesus Cuellar (28 - 1, 21 KOs) takes on Mexican superstar Abner Mares (29 -2-1, 15 KOs) and junior middleweight champion Jermall Charlo (24 - 0, 18 KOs) faces undefeated challenger Julian «J - Rock» Williams (22 -0-1, 14 KOs), live from USC's Galen Center.

A SHOWTIME championship doubleheader featuring undefeated featherweight Carl «The Jackal» Frampton (23 - 0, 14 KOs) in a world title rematch against three - division world champion Leo «El Terremoto» Santa Cruz (32 -1-1, 18 KOs).

In the co-feature, featherweight world champion Jesus Cuellar (27 - 1, 21 KOs) takes on exciting Puerto Rican contender Jonathan «Polvo» Oquendo (26 - 4, 16 KOs).

Leo Santa Cruz (34 -1-1, 19 KOs) and Abner Mares (31 -2-1, 15 KOs) square off in a world title rematch between featherweight world champions and SoCal rivals.

After unifying the super bantamweight division, Frampton moved up to featherweight and became a two - division world champion.

Showtime Boxing: Undefeated 3 - division world champion Leo Santa Cruz gets to work in the 5th round and defeats Kiko Martinez via TKO in their featherweight bout on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING.

Based on the events surrounding a 1962 world featherweight match in Helsinki between Mäki, the unlikely Finnish contender, and Davey Moore, the U.S defending champion, Kuosmanen's film works simultaneously with and against the tropes of the boxing picture.